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PNS Daily Newscast - January 21, 2019

Could the nation’s airports be the next pressure points in the government shutdown? Also on our Monday rundown: Calls go out to improve food safety; and a new report renews calls for solutions to Detroit’s water woes.

Public News Service - CA: Animal Welfare

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A biotech firm with facilities in California will pay $3.5 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Santa Cruz Biotechnology has admitted no wrongdoing, but will lose its dealer's license and registration as

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Environmental groups are applauding the criminal indictment Tuesday of the company blamed for the massive oil spill last May in Refugio, about an hour north of Santa Barbara.
A grand jury indicted Plains All-American Pipeline on 46 counts related to the spill. In addition, o

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dozens of people rallied in Sacramento on Tuesday to support a bill that would ban certain kinds of rat poison.
The protest took place across the street from the annual meeting of California Pest Control Operators, which opposes Assembly Bill 2596. Most rat poison was pulled fr

LOS ANGELES - A new federal assessment shows the population of sardines off the West Coast has continued to plummet; it's a third lower than last spring, even though the entire sardine fishery was closed in 2015.
The news means the fishery is very unlikely to reopen until at least 2017.
Geoff Sh

Move over, Oscars! The movie business is going the dogs - and cats and birds, horses, and even lobsters - once the third annual Animal Film Festival starts on Saturday.
The festival, which runs all day at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, about an hour outside Sacramento, will feature 20 fil

Animal-rights advocates with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are speaking out in the wake of revelations that SeaWorld sent some of its employees to spy on them.
On Thursday, SeaWorld chief executive Joel Manby admitted in an earnings call that his company directed workers to go underco

SAN DIEGO - Wildlife conservation groups are speaking out against a new federal rule that is supposed to improve conditions for captive marine mammals, including dolphins and orcas, saying the rule actually weakens some existing protections.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture just releaseda propos

SAN DIEGO – Wildlife advocates are praising SeaWorld San Diego's decision to let Shamu retire, so to speak, but they have reservations about the park's announcement that killer whale shows will change at the end of next year.
SeaWorld says the orcas will still be on display at the amusement p